Following is a collection of vows which may be used in any ceremony.
With these rings we unite our hearts in tenderness and devotion. We will honor each other's cultures as we join customs to form a trusting relationship. We will protect, support, and encourage each other through life's joys and sorrows as we create a loving future. We promise to establish a home for ourselves and our children shaped by our respective heritage; a loving environment dedicated to peace, hope, and respect for all people. From this day forward our lives will be intertwined forever, blessed in faith, filled with compassion, understanding and love.
Before Our Family & Friends who has given us the gift of love, I__________, join with you, ____________, in the covenant of marriage. I promise to give my faithful, life-giving love to you, and to share my life with you as long as we shall live. May this community witness our love for each other for the rest of our lives.
Before these witnesses I, _____________, vow to love you, __________, and care for you as long as we both shall live. I take you, with all your faults and your strengths, as I offer myself to you with my faults and my strengths. I will help you when you need help, and will turn to you when I need help. I choose you as the person with whom I will spend my life.
I affirm/pledge/declare my love for you as I invite you to share/continue to share my life. To this end, I call upon my family and friends here present to witness that I, _________, take you ________, to be my lawful, wedded wife/husband/partner.
On this day, I ___________ thee wed you _________, the woman/man I have chosen to be my wife/husband/partner for the rest of my life, and promise to give you all the love, courtesy, respect, thoughtfulness, and effort that a good union demands as well as dedicate myself in mind, body, heart and soul to make you as happy, economically stable, and fulfilled as I can provide.
You, ______, are the love of my life, my reason for living, the inspiration I have always sought and, as such, pledge my undying dedication to you for the rest of my life. I love you with all of my heart and soul and know that as long as you are next to me I will be willing to give my life to you, if necessary, to ensure your happiness and well being. I, _____, take your hand and hold you to be, from this day on, an integral part of me, like it was my own flesh, and promise to look upon you forever as I would look upon myself, with dedication, understanding, and unconditional love.
I love you ______ with all my heart and soul, as you are everything that I could ever hope to find in a woman/man. You are loving, thoughtful, caring, smart, and beautiful/handsome in my eyes and your love always makes me feel like the happiest and luckiest man/woman alive. I am proud to have you as my life's partner and I promise that I will always be at your side, through good and bad, and give you everything that is in my power to grant to assure your health and happiness for as long as I live. I am yours forever….
(Partner's name) as we stand here among our peers and under God I, ___________want to pledge, in front of all, my undying love and dedication to you and let you know that I have found in you the woman/man I wish to spend the rest of my life with. You are the one person who, with your love, laughter, caring, thoughtfulness, attention, positive outlook, and devotion to me, has rekindled the hope of a future full happiness and sharing and this hope, which was once almost gone, has grown within me anew and has brought the certainty that with you by my side my life will be full of love, caring, happiness, purpose, and joy. So with these words I take you ____________as my wife/husband/partner and vow, unto you, to give all that is within my heart, body, and soul, to give for as long as I am alive.
I love you. You are my best friend. Today I, ____________, commit myself to you. I promise to encourage and inspire you, to laugh with you, and to comfort you in times of sorrow and struggle. I promise to love you in good times and in bad, when life seems easy and when it seems hard. When our love is simple, and when it is an effort. I promise to cherish you, and to always hold you in highest regard. These things I give to you today, and all the days of our life.
We pledge to each other to be loving friends and committed partners: To talk and to listen, to trust and appreciate one another; to respect and cherish each other's uniqueness; and to support, comfort and strengthen each other through life's joys and sorrows. We promise to share hopes, thoughts and dreams as we build our lives together. May our lives be ever intertwined, our love keeping us together. We will build a home that is compassionate to all, full of respect and honor for others and each other. May our home be forever filled with peace, happiness, and love.
Today I will marry my friend, the one I will live with, dream with, and love. I ____________ take you to be my husband/wife/partner. From this day forward I will cherish you, I will look with joy down the path of our tomorrows knowing we will walk it together side by side, hand in hand and heart to heart.
I promise to love you above all others and to value your friendship as a precious gift. I look forward to raising our family and building our relationship. I _____________ promise to stand beside you in sickness or health, in times of prosper and decline, in peace and in turmoil, as long as we both shall live.
Let us be grateful for the capacity to see, feel, hear, and understand. Let us be grateful for this incredible gift of life. Let us be especially grateful for the ties of love which bind us together, giving dignity, meaning, worth and joy to all our days. This is indeed a beautiful day. Let us rejoice in it and be glad, and let us count our many blessings.
I ___________take you ____________to be my husband/wife/partner To have and to hold from this day forward. I give to you my unending love and devotion. I promise to be true to you, to cherish you, and to share my thoughts, hopes, and dreams with you. I look forward to spending the rest of my life with you, my best friend. I will love you forever.
I ____________ take you ___________ to be my partner. To have and to hold from this day forward. I give to you my unending love and devotion. I promise to be true to you, to cherish you, and to share my thoughts, hopes, and dreams with you. I look forward to spending the rest of my life with you my best friend. I will love you forever.
I promise to be there when you need me, to fill your days with sunshine, to comfort you and encourage you, to help you reach your goals, to be your best friend ever and to love you all my life with all my heart.
I ____________ take you___________, to be my husband/wife/partner. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, I will love and honor you all the days of my life.
In the presence of our families and friends, I, ________, take you, ______________, to be may husband/wife/partner. I offer my friendship and trust in you, promising to be faithful and understanding as long as we both shall live.
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